Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Thea Matthews. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1951
Porsha Olayiwola: "We Drink at the Attenuation ...
2 min
1952
Roger Reeves: "For Black Children at the End of...
3 min
1953
Angelo Geter: "Praise"
2 min
1954
Elizabeth Curtis Holman : "After a Reading of '...
1 min
1955
Jessie Redmon Fauset: "Douce Souvenance"
1 min
1956
Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung: from "Tradi...
6 min
1957
Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella: from "A Coda to ...
16 min
1958
Donte Collins: "they need some of us to die"
2 min
1959
Assétou Xango: "Give Your Daughters Difficult N...
4 min
1960
Saretta Morgan: [excerpt from] Alt-Nature
2 min
1961
James Weldon Johnson: "Beauty That is Never Old...
1 min
1962
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Benediction"
0 min
1963
Helen Dimos: "For One Dead"
2 min
1964
Tiana Reid: "did-you-just-say-thang theory"
2 min
1965
Brandon Shimoda: "All Souls Procession"
1 min
1966
Samuel Ace: "I Was Called Back"
2 min
1967
Erica Hunt: "Lines on Love's (Loss*)"
2 min
1968
William Saphier: "Childhood Memories"
1 min
1969
E. Pauline Johnson: "Through Time and Bitter Di...
1 min
1970
Sun Yung Shin: "A History of Domestication"
1 min
1971
Shane McCrae: "What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness"
0 min
1972
Eduardo C. Corral: "To Francisco X. Alarcón (1...
1 min
1973
Asiya Wadud: "attention as a form of ethics [ex...
1 min
1974
Claire Wahmanholm: "Poem with No Children In It"
1 min
1975
James Oppenheim: "Self"
2 min